that. chunk of ration. latest news the week's top stories from our team barack obama's tough foreign policy action kicks in quick after soft talks acute is control of white house for another four years. urged by western powers to step down and facing death threats from the rebels the syrian president excuse simply tells us that he'll stay until he's voted out. after some of the most intense to stare at the clashes in months greece faces more protests as it decides it will coldly and twenty thirty budget. and israel takes aim at its neighbors this weekend firing its first rounds at syria since the start of the conflict itself the killing six palestinians in retaliation for attacks from gaza.

are you watching the weekly roundup of top stories from our t. with me kevin zero in this morning and first republicans in the u.s. to licking their wounds after voters put. the democrat back in the nation's top job close race though that ultimately ended in a clear win over hard lot of mitt romney but obama's soft campaign talk on foreign policy soon transformed into tough shit even before all the ballots have been counted is out he's going to teach he can. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are an american family and we rise or fall together as one nation. waiting for him right after

reelection is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i've got the pen ready to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff was probably not the first issue addressed by the president. he also rise the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes due to reported heavy civilian casualties on lack of transparency on the u.s. part we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones this way the administration impose financial sanctions against iranian officials so the u.s. planes were jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking internet access in your rant that comes on top of a whole lot of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy the goal is not to change the

iranian government's decision making it's actually leverage ordinary civilians against the iranian government and to threaten to topple the government by inciting you know food riots or you know people who are unhappy because they can't you know their grandparents are dying and can't get medicine and on friday despite president obama's claims the u.s. should move away from the cold war thinking in relations with russia the white house launched its first permanent military presence on polish soil the issue has been a constant sword in the side of relations between moscow and washington as the u.s. also plans to install missile interceptors in poland but the president every other democrat that i'm aware of is also made it clear that if it needs russia is still opposed to it still sees it as as a we're just going to go ahead with any of the president's actions so far have shown while he may be talking soft he's acting tough looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he puts the idea of america

being the wall police very seriously but the question is who can hold that world police itself accountable in washington i'm going to check on the former cia officer told us that needs to break free of the string is being pulled from the right. what i would suggest is that he call a press conference what he would say is you know the campaign is over and i found out that i've been grievously misled they told me to say that iran had threatened to wipe israel off the map and i found out that they never said that it's a matter of fact the israeli deputy prime minister sort of said ok ok they never said that and so my speechwriters are being canned i'm going to get some new speechwriters the intelligence community keeps telling me that he ryan has not yet decided to build a nuclear weapon and so i'm going to get rid of all those folks from brookings other places who are the solve all of the speech saying well you know you still

have to worry about this instead of negotiations once these troublesome people have their own agenda are dismissed then he has a square chance of saying look we're going to do it deal with iran just as i said five years ago we're going to talk directly to them and we're not going to let that be sabotaged by either israeli intelligence or israeli official or not those within the neoconservative camp in washington syria's president rebuffed western calls to step down and warn foreign intervention will spark a global disaster in an exclusive interview for instance week so online and on c dot com and we'll be showing a little bit later this morning on this channel to now interview seventy seven hours or explains the bit more about what he had to say. the thing that really mark me the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside series that from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided

and even the people who didn't like us before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to power fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that i mean this is like the only secular that had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether it's sunni or shia or always or christians so they're really scared that if the army will fall apart and then you know you have this extremist muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them so it's not just about assad i think people feel like whether he goes or stays. it's only can get worse if it goes because it will get i mean the terror attacks will continue and the fundamentalists will come to power so they're very scared of that. that he is not a western puppet he also denies the fact that civil war is taking place in his country he's saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to fight different fractions of terrorism. as on the fact

that the financing of this terrorist fractions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad what he also said that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have a do you know if from atlantic to pacific the prize will be in vision and it's going. to be more than the whole world came before because if you have a problem in syria and iraq with the loss of twenty. thirty in the region and coexistence. between have to do in your face. to the pacific you know because you know. worth of going in that. regard but you're beautiful nobody can tell you what's next or president assad says that only elections can determine his future but it seems not everyone agreed the free syrian army is media chief spoke to us and says they want the president's head on

a plate. yeah now in his statement to your channel he said he would not leave syria you know this very well because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people will not manage to leave the country the free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria long enough you'll be lucky if you notice the same fate as. the leaders of the syrian opposition say they've signed a mission agreement now to form a new umbrella coalition during a conference this weekend catarrh for the police lost support in syria itself after key activists were disavowed disavowed the exiled officials this meantime as the u.k.'s top general says the country may launch a limited military intervention in syria as early as this winter that therefore is the most serious british threat to damascus yet political analyst dr franklin lamb told me that only foreign action as he sees it can topple a sad point. absent a nato type no fly zone massive massive air strikes no i

don't think. the regime can be defeated because their air force is being supplied it still has a lot of reserves and i don't i don't see it you measure got nato or a ground invasion i think what we've seen so far of this opposition which is actually splendor and some ways they've got a very steep slope to climb the only reason we have that almost tissue quality remark was the threats and the could be the political pressure that was put on them pay had to do something this weekend do you think the west is going to show up in qatar and arrange a show and no result to know how long it will last we don't know and it's been twenty one months in libya you recall and there are factions still aren't glued together and they had the benefit of dying thousand bombing runs by nato so i doubt i think that the other problem is not the groups themselves which are very

disparate. but the lack of support. paid god now among the syrian people and what they have lost in terms of respect with through a lot of crimes they've committed a lot of assassinations and massacres and this is a last ditch effort in a sense to try to put together viable opposition and only time will tell if it's going to stick together. less than a month off of the deadly assault and. stronghold. gracefully. it is a way of life traditionally the people are.

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libby is trying to tout its wealth of ancient ruins to try to tempt to respect the revolution kept visitors well away but the country's most recent history is off the map and all of the makers aren't likely to learn much about the deadly siege of bani walid less than a month ago. reports. we're here at the world's travel market a trade show a taking place in london where people can consulates their holiday inspiration or that scout exotic spot for a honeymoon a one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the site is a political side it's completely safe and today it's got to be safe more than even towns to big towns like london or like new york but there's somewhere there's not mentioned in the guide burke bani walid

a desert town this remain loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination chipley but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the. story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being shake a stick it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out the conversation when i saw this. it was a ghost with surprise and i came. back of the situation at the moment. and if we have so many people it means situations they could be coming most and we can think

for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so. what about what's happening in bani walid at the moment. but do you mean was hacked was being happening there there's been fighting do you know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people you telling them about what's been happening in at the moment. this is. for the. reason because it was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations the same media and government remain resolutely silent i've got to sort of package this as a success it's very important for nato so we have. of these countries have been liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of the travel information the new york be given

reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's a concerning silence here this being a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk. about what's been happening in places like that anyway lete the reality is that they need government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the divides that remain in the country but none of that you're going to read about in a coffee break surf that london. this gritted teeth in greece again tonight the crowds keeping vigil outside parliament in athens as it votes on next year's budget doesn't make comfortable reading for the hard pressed citizens but it does need approval for the country to secure a fresh international loan another condition was further wage cuts and tax hikes which were narrowly voted through last thursday but public patients were low or go cost five years now into the crippling slump all a quarter of the country's out of work. programs will make

a small these latest cuts riot police were pelted with molotov cocktails and furious crowds while trance a-q. an apartment building there over a hundred arrests economist to me traditional police says that said yesterday cuts that were meant to revitalize the greek economy are only we pose to secure the cash flow from europe. these are shared the measures being directly. affecting the public sector how can one expect these measures to. improve we're more efficient in fact there or. can't or operate in the normal level which was not very efficient anyway so i don't think really that there is going to be any benefit from the measures themselves the only benefit that the prime minister expects as well as he squandered arden's expect is the release of these long awaited long delayed thirty one on friday billion euros for tranche

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israel's military is engaged on both its northern and southern front is right now the country's fired into syria in response to a mortar attack on the golan heights and television is warning of tougher action against militants in gaza. in the palestinian territory paula slee reports. early on sunday afternoon israel fired into syrian territory for the first time since the nine hundred seventy three war as spoke earlier with the israeli defense forces spokesperson unit who did confirm that these warning shots took place he said that they were in response to a war to show for a link near any israeli military post in the golan heights now these ladies do not believe that they were the target they do believe that the shell was part of the byproduct of the internal fighting taking place in syria between forces loyal to side and rebel fighters but the army is saying that if one hundred made more attacks from syria that violates the disengagement agreement between israel and

syria now there have been several such incidents over the past two weeks just last week three syrian tanks crossed over the demilitarized zone between the two countries alarming israelis and also causing them to raise their alert in the area the idea of has filed a complaint with the united nations saying that any kind of fire imitating from syria into israel will be responded to also on the southern israeli border we have seen a flare up of violence between the israelis and palestinian militants the latest we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that his country is ready to strike hondo against the gaza strip if it does not stop attacking israel he made these remarks today sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting in which he said and i'm quoting that the world must understand that israel cannot sit idly by while attempts are made to attack it the hostilities along the israel gaza border have it's going to choppy particularly this past weekend this follows israeli airstrikes

that killed six palestinians four of whom were teenagers and two of whom belonged to the militant group islamic jihad according to the gaza health ministry spokesperson there are a number of people who were injured the biggest stands at around thirty eight including children the problem though is that often in these israeli airstrikes israel lands of killing civilians and not militants as its intention. it is a must have taken responsibility for this attack there were four israeli soldiers that were wounded in action and response from the palestinian side was dozens of rockets that were fired into southern israel early on sunday morning the whole sort of israel is in a state of high alert and this comes of palestinian militants about to take the bench for the steps now flare ups along the israeli gaza border are quite common and we had seen already two flare ups this month this though is one of the highest casualty counts in gaza in a single incident in recent months. closely a corresponding middle east there in the meantime sectarian clashes between sorry

about that one of the chairs went wrong clashes between rival religious groups break out in neighboring lebanon three people died in a gun battle between the sunni followers of a hardline cleric and hezbollah fighters it comes at a time when shia muslims including hezbollah mark an annual ten day morning ritual instance the latest in the spillover violence from neighboring syria which analysts say is a mirror image of lebanon's own sectarian divides. in clashes have broken out in warsaw for around twenty thousand people marched polish independence day protesters were chanting anti-government slogans and throwing firecrackers security forces used rubber bullets tear gas and buttons to bring the situation under control two police officers were injured and several right wing nationalist have been detained . the u.n. nuclear watchdog says iran is carrying out what could be cleanup activity at one of its key military bases which the i.a.e.a. wants to inspect for nuclear research projects the parts inside as i'm being visited by the u.n. since two thousand and five and some western countries suspect

a ran of using it to hide elements of a weapons program run strongly denies trying to develop a nuclear deterrent the i says there's good reason to believe the iranians will cooperate with inspectors. i could tell your cameraman that was toppled off his chair is well or more news coming up in about thirty five we hope morman it's going to be more news coming thirty five minutes meantime deadly and dangerous feared for its effectiveness we explore the secrets behind the kalashnikov assault rifle just after this break let me hand it to our cameraman to do this. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them

even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet off the beat is good for you is that if in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life the soon to be other patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives were in the angle when professing result of design his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller in the ultimate goal is still the same thing somebody is alive both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be always out of center nowadays seeking surgery

focused medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy. and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state to western siberia main motive for the surgery had to do with

how he fared in the auditors in america advertises one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expect to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters she self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

i am a professional. i always intrude with the firing single rounds a minute. i know the fatigue. i take pride in my work but for one thing. i do not know much of it. not the one who kills that distinction belongs to the tree. i am an assault rifle my name is carlos nieto. a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry are about to start an exercise in the morning information according to tradition they pay homage to past comrades who have died in the line of duty. that has taken part in many counterterrorist operations across russia. they have

a variety of firearms at their disposal but their weapon of choice is still the kalashnikov assault rifle. kalash. there are here. that these soldiers will endure a course of special training lasting almost until. its regular procedure a modification to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it will be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground in uganda. for every batch is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. in a scientific trial. the rifles designed. that when he realized his first model was to be subjected to a severe test he looked away he couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes.